2012-10-01
2012-10-31
PROGRAM
Presidential Debate 110
CNN Newsroom 90
Charlie Rose 82
Piers Morgan Tonight 66
The Rachel Maddow Show 66
PBS NewsHour 57
Anderson Cooper 360 55
Erin Burnett OutFront 52
U.S. Senate 51
Greta Van Susteren 48
Hardball With Chris Matthews 48
The Ed Show 40
Vice Presidential Debate 37
Book TV 34
FOX and Friends 34
Happening Now 34
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FOXNEWS 238
FOXNEWSW 238
MSNBC 219
MSNBCW 219
CNNW 191
CSPAN 191
CNN 190
CSPAN2 137
WHUT (Howard University Television) 67
CURRENT 66
WETA 58
KQED (PBS) 56
KGO (ABC) 48
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WRC 41
WUSA (CBS) 39
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DATE
Oct 23rd (Tue) 201
Oct 22nd (Mon) 145
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Oct 24th (Wed) 124
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Oct 8th (Mon) 95
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Oct 18th (Thu) 75
Oct 3rd (Wed) 68
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Oct 16th (Tue) 64
Oct 28th (Sun) 55
Oct 7th (Sun) 54
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Oct 15th (Mon) 43
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Oct 29th (Mon) 31
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obama 2110
romney 2064
washington 1520
libya 1250
florida 1167
afghanistan 1106
new york 1061
paul ryan 988
mitt romney 956
virginia 949
benghazi 926
china 893
iraq 866
iran 824
syria 814
barack obama 806
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WRC - Meet the Press's Press Pass
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Oct 28, 2012
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Meet the Press's Press Pass
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Oct 28, 2012


for iraq from george w. bush to barack obama." welcome to both of you. great to be able to talk to both of you here. the close of this campaign. it is very interesting to hear both president obama and mitt romney look in their rearview mirror about the last decade in foreign policy and national security policy and the president saying, look, i ended the war in iraq, we are on a glide path out of afghanistan. and yet we know the threat from both of these countries still remains and there's a lot of unfinished business. michael, you get to a lot of that of course in your book, in iraq. the idea that we're done. put it in the rear view mir but there's a lot of unfinished business. >> yeah. one thing that's striking to me is just really the gap between the campaign rhetoric and what the obama administration's actual policy was in iraq because you have to ask yourself the question, what does it mean to end a war? and it's lot more than simply removing troops and actually, when president obama approached iraq, he, himself, and his team, thought it entailed a lot more than removing troops them
CSPAN - Presidential Foreign Policy Debate
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Oct 20, 2012
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Presidential Foreign Policy Debate
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Oct 20, 2012


of iraq. pbs host jim lehr was the moderator at the university of miami. [applause] >> to he believed he could do a better job than president bush and preventing another 9/11 type terrorist attack? >> yes, i do. but before i answer further, let me thank you for moderating. i want to thank the university of miami for hosting us. and i know the president will join me in welcoming all of florida to this debate. you've been through the roughest weeks anybody could imagine. our hearts go out to you. and we admire your pluck and perseverance. i can make american safer than president bush has made us. and i believe president bush and i both love our country equally. but we just have a different set of convictions about how you make america safe. i believe america is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances. i'll never give a veto to any country over our security. but i also know how to lead those alliances. this president has left them in shatters across the globe, and we're now 90 percent of the casualties in iraq and 90 percent of the costs. i thi
WHUT - Democracy Now!
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Oct 5, 2012
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Democracy Now!
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Oct 5, 2012


the 506 and a trichet return from iraq. >> there is a stigma many people in the army told me against getting help for mental behavioral issues. it is seen as weak. it is often seen as just an excuse to get out of the army if he cannot hack it. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we're on the road in colorado springs, colorado. hundreds of protesters have begun gathering in the jordanian capital of amman to call for reforms a day after the country's king attempted to deter the protest by dissolving parliament. king abdullah had also called for early elections in a bid to dissuade demonstrators from rallying. as many as 50 dozen people are expected to join the demonstration called for by the jordanian wing of the muslim brotherhood. turkey has authorized further military action against syria as a continue to fire artillery across the border for a second day thursday in retaliation for mortar blast that killed five turkish civilians. turkish police used teargas to disperse anti-war protesters to the tu
CSPAN - Presidential Foreign Policy Debate
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Oct 20, 2012
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Presidential Foreign Policy Debate
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Oct 20, 2012


and they didn't. and they're showing up in iraq for the same reason. they're trying to defeat us. and if we lose our will, we lose. but if we remain strong and resolute, we will defeat this enemy. >> ninety second response, senator kerry. >> i believe in being strong and resolute and determined. and i will hunt down and kill the terrorists, wherever they are. but we also have to be smart, jim. and smart means not diverting your attention from the real war on terror in afghanistan against osama bin laden and taking if off to iraq where the 9/11 commission confirms there was no connection to 9/11 itself and saddam hussein, and where the reason for going to war was weapons of mass destruction, not the removal of saddam hussein. this president has made, i regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. and judgment is what we look for in the president of the united states of america. i'm proud that important military figures who are supporting me in this race, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff john shalikashvili, just yesterday, general eisenhower's son, general john eisenhower, endorsed me,
CURRENT - Viewpoint With Eliot Spitzer
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Oct 8, 2012
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Viewpoint With Eliot Spitzer
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Oct 8, 2012


"terms of engagement" for foreign policy.com and jon soltz, an iraq war veteran and co-founder and chairman of vote vets.org . is there anything tangible to bitebite into. >> it is adder. the bellicose language is the classic bellicose language, democrats are soft. democrats are weak. democrats are not resolute. but in this speech they've gotten closer to president obama than they were before. in the case of iran, which is iwhich has always been romney's big issue, he didn't say we should be prepared to bomb iran. no. he said, because he's trying to show that he's moderate now we should be prepared to impose tight sanctions on iran. >> eliot: what does that mean? the sanctions are crushing the iranian economy. their currency has been devalued dramatically. there is currency internally. what other sanctions could we impose? >> there is not much. once obama agreed to sanctions that was one. then he said the u.s. should arm syrian rebels. that's not what he said. he said the u.s. should work to organize the rebels so that they can be armed by others. that's identical to th
KRCB - Charlie Rose
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Oct 23, 2012
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Charlie Rose
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Oct 23, 2012


we talk about leadership, too many people think of the iraq and 2003, which was a fatally bad exercise of leadership. >> rose: we conclude this evening with dexter filkins of the new yorker magazine who has a remarkable story about death in iraq and reunion in the united states. >> the i interviewed a guy in the peace, a psychiatrist who used the term moral injury and he sa a t of soiers a marines stuff from moral injury, which he described as sort of it happens when you get an order, you do something that you believe at the time was absolutely correct and the only thing you could do, and it turns out to have been, to have terrible consequences. that is basically what happened here. >> rose: american foreign policy and a dexter filkins story. when we come back. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. additional funding provided by these funders. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose. >> rose: we begin this evening with the 2012 election last night, president obama and mitt romney balanced it ou
CSPAN - 2004 Vice Presidential Debate
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Oct 6, 2012
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2004 Vice Presidential Debate
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Oct 6, 2012


goes to vice president cheney. vice president cheney, there have been new developments in iraq, especially having to do with the administration's handling. paul bremer, the former head of the coalition provisional authority, gave a speech in which he said that we have never had enough troops on the ground, or we've never had enough troops on the ground. donald rumsfeld said he has not seen any hard evidence of a link between al qaeda and saddam hussein. was this approved -- of a report that you requested that you received a week ago that showed there was no connection between abu musab zarqawi and saddam hussein? al-zarqawi and saddam hussein? >> i want to thank you and i want to thank the folks here at case western reserve for hosting this tonight. this is a very important event and they've done a superb job of putting it together. it's important to look at all of our developments in iraq within the broader context of the global war on terror. and after 9/11 it became clear we had several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that w
CSPAN2 - Book TV
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Oct 6, 2012
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Oct 6, 2012


personalize the story of iraq a little bit and talk about your own views. this is a place you traveled in with saddam hussein, you were a supporter of the war. explain why. i found some of the most wrenching passages in this book discussions about what a disaster the iraq war has proved for every party in the united states, most of all the iraqis. >> i knew iraq intimately in the 1980s as a reporter. huckabee airtran/iraq war from the iraq side. iraq was like a vast prison yard under saddam hussein. it was so suffocating that i can compare it to no place in the arab world but i could compare it to romania which i knew intimately. to go from saddam hussein's iraq to syria was like coming up for liberal humanists bare. we tend to say all dictators are bad and all democrats are good. we eliminate -- we e. race distinctions and it is distinctions that give us the complexity we need to understand the world and assad ran a brutal dictatorship but nothing like saddam hussein. i had my passport taken by the iraqi authorities when i was in iraq -- i was very nervous obviously. i only got back t
WHUT - Newsline
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Oct 31, 2012
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Newsline
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Oct 31, 2012


environment in iraq and assure more japanese firms can do business in the country. the president met iraq's prime minister through his first visit to the country and told the minister japanese companies are concerned about the risks of doing business in iraq. they include the sudden cancellation of contract. he asked iraq to promote a more business friendly environment. he stressed that the company will help iraq draft a legal framework to protect the rights of investors. next year will mark the tenth anniversary of the start of the iraq war. violence still rocks the country but iraq is becoming a major oil producer once again. the country's economic growth is expected to top 12% this year. japan self defense forces and u.s. military will hold their training exercise in waters off okinawa prefecture. they were to practice a land mag nufr, but it has forced military plan tires take a less direct approach. the drill is part of a large scale exercise that starts next week. commanders want to enhance the defense of southwestern islands. in italy they plan to hold a drill on an uninhabited isl
MSNBCW - Andrea Mitchell Reports
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Oct 1, 2012
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Andrea Mitchell Reports
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Oct 1, 2012


in this race. >> thank you so much. >>> up next, is iraq unraveling? a look at where the u.s. policy stands now, next on "andrea mitchell reports." we make a simple thing. a thing that helps you buy other things. but plenty of companies do that. so we make something else. we help make life a little easier, more convenient, more rewarding, more entertaining. year after year. it's the reason why we don't have customers. we have members. american express. welcome in. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement plans, it helps pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you thousands in out-of-pocket costs. to me, relationships matter. i've been w
CSPAN - National Security & Campaign 2012
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Oct 15, 2012
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National Security & Campaign 2012
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Oct 15, 2012


is to know that the united states may not leave as quickly as they expect. look what happened in iraq. boy, we stuck to our deadline, and we did not work all that hard to make sure that there was a status of forces agreement with iraq. look at iraq today. with a man who is trying very hard to become a shia dictator, with civil war breaking out again, with al qaeda active not only in iraq, but iraq's neighbors, how well have we done? have we brought peace and democracy to iraq? are the iraqi people safe? the answer, we know, is no. the difference is -- this goes to your question, i do not want to evade it -- mr. romney says, how many troops? how many troops will depend on the situation on the ground. what you do not want to have is an announcement ahead of time, we will have x number of troops, for a y number of years, and let the taliban plan against that. if we announce what we are going to do, it is like telegraphing in basketball. the best way to get the other team to steal the ball is if you telegraph your pass. >> just to follow up on that, the fact that the administration is negotiat
KQED - PBS NewsHour
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Oct 23, 2012
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Oct 23, 2012


positions than last night on iran, on afghanistan, on iraq and on russia. those are some of the biggest challenges ahead of us in 2013 and '14. i think this does get to credibility. i think he hurt himself last night in trying to be something that he has not been: very consistently in the campaign trail. on the other hand, i think what you saw from president obama is someone with a fairly impressive international record of accomplishments in his first term and a very clear difference, i think, in where he would take us on some of those issues than governor romney in a second term. >> woodruff: richard haas, how did you read the, i guess, the difference between the agreement of what we heard last night from governor romney, the criticism in the past, and how do you square when governor romney says he believes u.s. foreign policy is unraveling under this president but then he proceeds, as he said, to agree with him on a number of points. >> well as richard nixon i think it was who said when you run for the nomination you've got to tack more towards the end zones. when you're in the genera
CSPAN2 - U.S. Senate
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Oct 10, 2012
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U.S. Senate
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Oct 10, 2012


president cheney, there have been new developments in iraq, especially having to do with the administration's handling. paul bremer gave a speech in which he said we have never had enough troops on the ground, donald rumsfeld said he has not seen any hard evidence of a link between al qaeda and saddam hussein. was this a report that you requested that you received a week ago that showed there was no connection between al-zarqawi and saddam hussein? >> i want to thank you and i want to thank the folks here at case western reserve for hosting this tonight. this is a very important event and they've done a superb job of putting it together. it's important to look at all of our developments in iraq within the broader context of the global war on terror. and after 9/11 it became clear we had several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that we had to go after the terrorists wherever we might find them, that we also had to go after state sponsors of terror, those who might provide sanctuary and safe harbor. and we also had to finally stand up to democ
KRCB - Newsline
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Oct 9, 2012
KRCB
Newsline
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Oct 9, 2012


destabilize the rejn. region. >>> the international energy agency predicts iraq's oil production will more than double by 2020 from the current level. the iea made a forecast in a report released on tuesday. the report says that iraq will likely produce 6.1 million barrels of oil a day by 2020. iraq has signed many contracts with international oil companies. the country has been making progress and reconstruction since the u.s. led war. the iea also projects by 2035 iraq's daily output will grow to 8.3 million barrels. that means iraq will overtake russia as the world's second largest oil exporter. the report stresses sufficient oil storage and transportation will be needed. the iea says iraq will achieve economic growth if it efficiently manages its oil developments and revenues. researchers of the world health organization say that more than 350 million people suffer from depression. the figure is about 5% of the global population. the who released the estimate ahead of world mental health day on wednesday. the organization says more than half of depression sufferers are not receiving tr
KCSMMHZ - Journal
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Oct 9, 2012
KCSMMHZ
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Oct 9, 2012


predicts that iraq's oil production will more than double. the forecast was in a report released on tuesday. the report says that iraq will likely produce 6.1 million barrels of oil a day in 2020. rather that's by 2020. iraq has signed many contracts with international oil companies. the country has been making progress and reconstruction since the u.s.-led war. the iea also projects by 2035 iraq's daily output will grow to 8.3 million barrels. that means iraq will overtake russia as the world's second largest oil exporter. but oil storage and transportation will be needed. the iea says iraq will achieve economic growth if it efficiently manages its oil development and revenues. >>> researchers of the world health organization say that more than 350 million people suffer from depression. the figure is about 5% of the global population. the w.h.o. released the estimate ahead of world mental health day on wednesday. the organization says more than half of depression sufferers are not receiving treatment because many fail to acknowledge their illness. the researchers say women appear to be mor
KPIX - CBS Evening News
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Oct 21, 2012
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CBS Evening News
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Oct 21, 2012


do you think that was? >> well, that was the period when they began to think about the surge in iraq. >> reporter: the war in iraq had reached a crisis point. and that was where president bush was about to commit more forces. the preoccupation with iraq is captured in a 2006 memo from defense secretary rumsfeld. i keep having meetings with general george casey, the commander in iraq but i need more meetings with general carl eikenberry, the commander in afghanistan. i need to know what he is doing. si have no idea. several months later eikenberry sent a personal letter to rumsfeld warning the war against the taliban had reached a stalemate, and the u.s. should rethink its goals. rumsfeld told eikenberry he thought it was an excellent letter but i don't know what to do with it. in 2007 when then joint chiefs chairman admiral michael mullen made his first trip to afghanistan a sergeant told him he was seeing his men crumble under the stress of too much fighting with too little equipment. accord-- according to notes taken by an aide one commander asked for 34 more legal korpts, mullen r
KGO - Nightline
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Oct 22, 2012
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Nightline
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Oct 22, 2012


that the administration was not as strong as it needed to be. i think they saw weakness. >> flash point, iraq, a hugely unpopular war, a strategic blunder. president obama seemed to surprise romney by arguing that he wanted to keep fighting it. >> and the challenge we have, i know you haven't been in a position to actually execute foreign policy, but every time you've offered an opinion, you've been wrong. you said we should have gone into iraq, despite the fact that there were no weapons of mass destruction. you said that we should still have troops in iraq to this day. >> romney struggled to answer. >> with regards to iraq, you and i agreed, i believe that there should have been a status of forces agreement. oh, you didn't want a status of forces -- >> no, what i would not have done is left 10,000 troops in iraq that would tie us down and that certainly would not help us in the middle east. >> i'm sorry. you actually -- there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement and i conferred in that and said we should have some number of troops that stayed on. >> flash po
COMW - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Oct 23, 2012
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Oct 23, 2012


! (laughter) how about iraq? >> governor romney, was the war in iraq a good idea worth the cost in blood and treasure we have spent? >> it was the right decision to go into iraq. i supported it at the time; i support it now. >> jon: but do you support it -- (laughter). now? >> we don't want another iraq. we don't want another afghanistan. that's not the right course for us. >> well, i guess that's not a flip-flop so much as a principled recognition because of the iraq war's current unpopularity. (laughter) you know what? iraq and afghanistan those are yesterday's wars. it's tomorrow's war that counts and if there's anything governor romney has been vociferous about lo these past 18 months it is his uncompromising belief that it's time to rattle our sabers at iran. >> this is a president who should have instead communicated to iran that we are prepared, that we are considering military options, they're not just on the table, they are in our hands. >> the president should have built credible threat of military action. when they see our military option in our hand, a possible blockade or ae
COMW - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Oct 24, 2012
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Oct 24, 2012


now are two iraq veteran, field trained medics, meg mitcham and daniel hutchinson. thank you for being here, meg, daniel. all right. [cheering and applause] let's get into it. all right. meg? >> yep. >> daniel? >> yep. >> jon: okay. you guys served in iraq? >> yep. >> jon: and what was your job in iraq? >> i was a combat medic. >> jon: uh-huh. daniel? >> i was in iraq in '06. our job was to stabilize casualties until the point where we could get medical evacuation for them. >> jon: yours as well. >> pretty much the same thing. guy gets shot, we fix it. >> jon: well, now you're back home. you're looking for work. would you like the still be in the medical field by any chance? >> absolutely. >> jon: interesting. [laughter] >> where are you from? >> columbus, ohio. >> jon: where are you from? washington, d.c. >> i didn't realize you're from ohio, the only state that matter. here's a voter registration card. please. did your get this? >> yeah. >> jon: they already got you? you want to volunteer at all? apparently it's a requirement now, anyone from ohio has to... so ohio and d.c. i happen
SFGTV2 -
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Oct 5, 2012
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Oct 5, 2012


for bringing to bear some of the numbers, some of the horrific things that are happening in iraq right now. this poem was drawn from my experiences in iraq from the culture, from the music and from its traditions. so i have dedicated this poem to iraq. i think it will be helpful for you to know el kubenchi, along with el watanabi. el kubenchi is famous for music, a great history and tradition of music, and he has taught all the gray modern singers of the 20th century who came out of iraq. his music has touched me and you will hear it in this poem, 32 beads on a string. i woke from the nightmare of a gutted macom, not because i have not yet bled my life in yellow, but because minarettes looking sky ward. one burly buffalo looking for hooves and hot breath because the skin is not yet numb and the lights are not yet flickering, i will continue to sip at my hot tea and stare at the dust-colored noon. one white dasha screams with the brilliance of red. can you hear them, the melodious intent, the glimmering mood in their eyes. face stitched by seam, a garment i have sewn to my skin. whatever re
CSPAN2 - Book TV After Words
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Oct 13, 2012
CSPAN2
Book TV After Words
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Oct 13, 2012


, thank you. >> the invisible wounds of war, coming home from iraq and afghanistan. what a time to talk about this. what relevant time. in july, the highest rate of suicides that the military has ever seen, 38 soldiers, took their own lives. more casualties than in the battlefields. more than one a day. this is precisely the topic you take on in the invisible wounds of war. talk about it. ... having problems with combat stress, they redeployed. >> host: it's interesting, one of the trends they found is that increasingly older soldiers are taking their own lives and where not even talking about veterans right now. >> guest: i will tell you why, because this is a volunteer army. this was stretched so thin. they are calling upon the national guard or go okay now the national guard, they have civilian jobs. they have children and wives. their child may be in high school. instead of going once a month to do what you do and take care of the problems of the united states you are being deployed. you have afghanistan or you were deployed to iraq, so they are not prepared for what they see. and a
MSNBCW - The Rachel Maddow Show
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Oct 20, 2012
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The Rachel Maddow Show
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Oct 20, 2012


the george w. bush administration iraq war spokesman in baghdad. that is who is heading up the paul ryan part of the romney/ryan campaign. senor also sits on the board of directors as something called the foreign policy initiative. they've got four people on their board. one is dan senor. two of the other four people are special advisers to the romney campaign. these guys. and yesterday that group headed by the top staffer to paul ryan and two other romney/ryan advisers called for an american war in syria. you ready for another american war in the middle east? this is a presidential campaign that neither side wants to be about foreign policy. even president obama does not want that because there are hard questions to be asked of him about why we're still in afghanistan and the kill list and drone strikes and all the rest. but the romney/ryan campaign has not been capable of asking those questions. they haven't even bothered to come up with a legible policy on the war we are already in. so anybody who wants hard questions asked of president obama on foreign policy, it just hasn't happened yet.
CSPAN - Washington This Week
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Oct 20, 2012
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Washington This Week
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Oct 20, 2012


and russia. syria supported groups killing u.s. troops in iraq and the supporting the lebanese terrorist organization responsible for the death of lebanon on ha. i go back to lebanon on because i think it is worth noting that the marines initially had been deployed to separate israel following the 1982 lebanon on a war. fast forward to 2005, and there was the assassination of another lebanese leader. this time, the former prime minister that courageously stood up to syria and domination inside lebanon on. that led the bush administration to withdraw the u.s. ambassador to syria because they had once again been implicated in the assassination of a lebanese leader. despite the bloody track record, the administration sought to improve relations with damascus and use senator john kerry as an intermediary. it reversed the bush and administration's attempt to mobilize international pressure against the regime and it reversed the decision to withdraw the u.s. ambassador. when the democratic controlled senate balked, named robert ford has -- in december of 2010. unfortunately, sending an ambassa
KNTV - Presidential Debate
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Oct 22, 2012
KNTV
Presidential Debate
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Oct 22, 2012


years. we ended the war in iraq, refocused our attention on those who actually killed us on 9/11. and as a consequence, al qaeda's core leadership has been decimated. in addition, we're now able to transition out of afghanistan in a responsible way, making sure that afghans take responsibility for their own security. and that allows us also to rebuild alliances and make friends around the world to combat future threats. now, with respect to libya, as i indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, i immediately made sure that number one, we did everything we could to secure those americans who were still in harm's way. number two, that we would investigate exactly what happened, and number three, most importantly, that we would go after those who killed americans, and we would bring them to justice. and that's exactly what we're going to do. but i think it's important to step back and think about what happened in libya. and keep in mind that i and americans took leadership in organizing an international coalition that made sure that we were able to, without p
MSNBCW - MSNBC Special Coverage
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Oct 22, 2012
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MSNBC Special Coverage
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Oct 22, 2012


were wrong. >> four years has gone by. the war in iraq, over. bin laden, dead. the middle east and revolution in chaos. dictators overthrown and a new american election that was never supposed to hinge on foreign policy comes down to a last debate on foreign policy. >> you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration? >> the polls are tied. the election is 15 days away. voting is already underway in ne nearly every swing state. and it is because of that shear competitive need that america's longest war still grinding on and our veterans and our diplomacy and our role in the world is thrust back to center stage. msnbc's coverage of the third and final presidential debate begins right now. >>> happy debate night. thanks for spending it with us. the contenders will face-off in a neutral setting to try to earn the vote of the few undecided voters in the last few swing states. with 15 days until election day, four million americans have already cast their vote. the race could not be closer. i'm rachel maddow here in
MSNBCW - The Rachel Maddow Show
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Oct 8, 2012
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The Rachel Maddow Show
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Oct 8, 2012


in iraq and afghanistan as if it were defense spending. they did it as an emergency so this is just the base defense budget. this just shows how the base defense budget went up after 9/11, not including that emergency spending on iraq and afghanistan. now here's the amazing thing. watch this. so this is where our spending is now. that's what the blue line means. if we were to let our spending drop like we did after the end of the cold war, our spending would look like this. now you know the sequester that you've been hearing about with the draconian defense cuts, this is what our spending on the military would be like with the sequester. that's the purple line there. president obama's plan, what the pentagon and president obama have agreed should happen and what their plan is if president obama gets a second term is this line. military spending to have go like that. the third one there in the stack. essentially setting the spending levels we have got now as a new normal, even though he keeps spending going slightly up. people say there's no difference between the candidates. there's
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Oct 23, 2012
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Oct 23, 2012


after having ended the war in iraq and transitioning out of afghanistan is because this is going to be a massive growth area in the future. we believe china can be a partner but we are also sending a very clear signal that america is a pacific power. we will have a presence there. we are working with countries in the region to make sure for example that ships can pass through. the commerce continues. in reorganizing trade relations with countries -- and we are organizing relations with countries. that is the kind of leadership we have shown and will continue to show. >> i want to take one of those points. attacking me as not talking about an agenda for getting more trade and opening up more jobs in this country. the president mentioned the auto industry and that i would somehow be added a favor of jobs being elsewhere. nothing could be further from the truth. i will msn of detroit. my father was head of a car company. -- i am a son of detroit. my father was the head of a car company. president bush wrote the first checks. i disagree with that. i said they need these companies to
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or is it going to be like iraq, jordan, bolivia, you know, the question answers itself. so the conditional probability that china will avoid the middle-income front is much higher than 50, 60 in three quarters when. so the notion that china i just don't think is likely at least if it reaches 50, 55% of the u.s. standards of living. yes, there is aging. it's a problem, but i think my number, my projection of 6.5% takes into account aging and as i said, there are lots of things china can do to overcome because it is very hard to avoid this problem. i forgot to mention that american boosters and u.s. boosters and china deniers say japan had this bubble, japan slowed down, china is in the same situation. and i say that that is fundamentally a long and how much because when china -- when japan reached that state in the late 80's and early 90's, japan was at the standard of living close to that. so, the scope for catch up to japan had was over. china is about 25%, so china japan and now what she is just plain wrong so it is related to the aging plant, so the demography's on the way that, but equ
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Oct 22, 2012
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Oct 22, 2012


were of the iraq war. the republicans have not had that. it's part of what makes tonight's debate a big deal. not just for the race, but for this nation. the debate is about to begin. here now from boca raton is bob schieffer. >> good evening from the campus of lynn university here in boek ra boca raton, florida. this is the last debate brought to you on the commission by presidential debates. this is on foreign policy. i'm bob schieffer of cbs news and the questions are mine and i have not shared them with their candidates or aids. the audience has taken a vow of silence. no reaction of any kind right now when we welcome president obama and governor mitt romney. [ applause ] >> gentlemen, your campaigns have agreed to certain rules and they are simple. they have asked me to divide the evening into segments. i will pose a question and you will each have two minutes to respond and we will have a general discussion until we move to the next segment. tonight's debate, as both of you know, comes on the 50th anniversary of the night that president kennedy told the world that the soviet union
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Oct 26, 2012


francisco international poetry festival from iraq i've been in touch with for more than a year and a half. after the united states would not give him his visa, i asked him -- i told him about mutanabbi street and he wrote a poem and he wrote it in english, though he writes in, of course, in arabic. but this one he wrote in english. so i'll read it. one figure in the poem you should know, humbaba, which is an ogre, a monster of immemorial age. that was a special big garden, a forest, where all types of trees and flowers grew. the trees bending down gently flinging branches. our orchard grew like a crown on the sun's eyebrow. where did humbaba come from? his mother was just a cave, his father unknown. who made him a friend pretending guardian of the orchard. did those nice shrubs need fear to go begging for a garden and have humbaba in his treachery ilk. those plants and flowers were like books everyone could read, not cut and throw away. their different fantastic colors had formed our blood so our veins ran smoothly, our 7 wonders showed. then humbaba made a whirlwind of fire and snow. who
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Oct 10, 2012
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Oct 10, 2012


iraq's ole production will double by 2020 from the current level. the iea made the forecast in the report tuesday. iraq signed contracts with international oil companies. making progress in reconstruction since the u.s.-led war. the iea projects by 2035, iraq's daily output will grow to 8.3 million barrels. that means iraq will overtake russia as the world's second largest oil exporter. but the report stresses sufficient oil storage and transportation will be needed. iea says iraq will achieve economic growth if it manages its oil devil of telopment and revenues. researchers of world health organization say more than 350 million people suffer from depression. the figure is 5% of the global population. the who released estimate ahead of world mental health day wednesday. >>> the organization says more than half of depression sufferers are not receiving treatment because many fail to acknowledge their illness. the researchers say women appear to be more susceptible to depression than men. they say 1 million people commit suicide each year. a large proportion of them had experi
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Oct 20, 2012
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Oct 20, 2012


? >> astarte out of the white house. nothing to do with anything. they were with iraq that had nothing to do with anything. nothing whatsoever. >> i ask you about the oslo accords. was that a policy that was good for the jewish state? >> i think hindsight is a wonderful thing. look, i'm a jabotinsky eich, so i can't have a rational discussion about it. you know, i don't believe there's palestinian people. from a clinical standpoint, hindsight is a wonderful thing. >> for who? >> you. >> let's give a couple more people a chance to play by. >> i'll just defer to hank of all things clinton. >> me again. so bill clinton and george w. bush are not on the ballot. what should we do? [laughter] you really want an answer to that? i said i gave a speech we could go about this. the other guys are morons on the trail. would you like to do? he must commit suicide. what would you like to do? i have a rope, i have a gun. bush reshoot affair quiet >> obviously a big to differ. i've are the first part, but not the second part. >> up i ran this campaign, i would be fired up enough to never work again. i'm vot
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Oct 14, 2012


tv.org. .. >> guest: my pleasure, too, thank you. >> host: the invisible wounds of war: coming home from iraq and afghanistan. and what a time to talk about this, what a relevant time. in july the highest rate of suicides that the military has ever seen, 38 soldiers took their own lives. more casualties in the battlefield, more than one a day. this is precisely the topic you take on in "the invisible wounds of war." talk about it. >> guest: well, first of all, um, only 1% of our population over 18 is in the army, and it's a volunteer army which means they don't have enough soldiers, they're stretched thin, they have too many deployments. usually you need two years between deployments, some of them get a year, nine months at the most, you know, even less. so they keep going back. and they redeploy when soldiers are having, um, problems with combat stress. they redeploy. >> host: you know, it's interesting, one of the trends they found is that increasingly older soldiers are taking their own lives, and we're not even talking about veterans right now. >> guest: well, i'll tell you why. because s
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Oct 21, 2012
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Oct 21, 2012


up security with contractors. they ran around. the square massacre in iraq. they killed a bunch of people and libya's government doesn't want us to put the mercenary armies on the ground there. they consider it boots on the ground. in fact, it's worse than u.s. marines because there's no accountability as we saw from the bush years. they protect their charges. this is true. it creates a conundrum for us. we used to have a service the point is to save governments in libya, hey, we have a group of accountable american employee's whose sole job is to protect abroad. >> we also cut the budget for it dramatically. we have diplomatic security. they are extremely good. many diplomats complain they are too well protected and can't do their jobs. >> we talked about that on the show. >> ambassador stevens wanted to be there. we gutted the budget. >> you are right. it's been cut 10% since 2010. the real issue is what are the implications and our positions there in libya? are we headed in the right direction? my argument is yes, overall. we have a military command over africa with more dron
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Oct 25, 2012


from iran and iraq is going down to alabama or georgia. we can do that in north carolina to save the federal government millions because the big bases are right here. a biotech we actually true to the two grew the jobs in the great recession. i have a provision in my plan that takes the growth in taxes, not new taxes but the growth in taxes and earmarks them to put them back so we can continue to grow that and and entrepreneurship has been great. some of the people that have been on the assembly line now they are out of four candidates had an idea of their life. they've put it to work and they've created their own business and they are thriving. we need to encourage that. so i think we can immediately reduce the unemployment rate rapidly if we do all of that but also in conjunction with that build the jobs for the future so that north carolina state's strong in this 21st century economy. >> what you see it being? mccrory: the benchmark against your competitors. within a year i hope we are at least beating south carolina. we need to at least be beating south carolina, shouldn't we
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Oct 6, 2012
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Oct 6, 2012


. [laughter] >> you both have sons who are in iraq or on their way to iraq. you, governor palin, have said that you would like to see a real clear plan for an exit strategy. what should that be, governor? >> i am very thankful that we do have a good plan and the surge and the counterinsurgency strategy in iraq that has proven to work, i am thankful that that is part of the plan implemented under a great american hero, general petraeus, and pushed hard by another great american, senator john mccain. i know that the other ticket opposed this surge, in fact, even opposed funding for our troops in iraq and afghanistan. barack obama voted against funding troops there after promising that he would not do so. >> and senator biden, i respected you when you called him out on that. you said that his vote was political and you said it would cost lives. and barack obama at first said he would not do that. he turned around under political pressure and he voted against funding the troops. we do have a plan for withdrawal. we don't need early withdrawal out of iraq. we cannot afford to lose there or we'r
CURRENT - Presidential Debate
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Oct 22, 2012
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Oct 22, 2012


job is to keep america safe. and that's what we have done. we ended the war on iraq and refocused our attention on those who actually killed us on 9/11 as a consequence al-qaeda's core leadership has been decimated. we're able to transition out of afghanistan in a responsible way, and that allows us also to rebuild alliances, and make friends around the world to combat future threats. now with respect to libya, as i indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, i immediately made sure that number one we did everything we could to secure those americans who were still in harm's way. number two, that we would investigate what hand and number three, most importantly that we would go after those who killed americans and bring them to justice and that's exactly what we're going to do but i think it's important to step back and think about what happened in libya. keep in mind that i and americans took leadership in organizing an international coalition that made sure we were able to -- without putting troops on the ground at a cost that was
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Oct 22, 2012
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Oct 22, 2012


four years. we ended the war in iraq, refocused our attention on those who actually killed us on 9/11. and as a consequence, al al qaeda's core leadership has been disseminated. in addition, we are now able to transition out of afghanistan in a responsible way, making sure that afghans take responsibility for their own security. and that allows us also to rebuild alliances and make friends around the world to combat future threats. now, with respect to libya, as i indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, i immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those americans who were still in harm's way. number two, that we would investigate exactly what happened and, number three, most importantly, that we would go after those who killed americans and we would bring them to justice. and that's exactly what we're going to do. i think it's important to step back and think about what happened in libya. keep in mind that i and americans took leadership in organizing an international coalition that made sure that we were able to, witho
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Oct 22, 2012
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Oct 22, 2012


's afghanistan, whether it's iraq, whether it's now iran, you've been all over the map. i mean, i'm pleased that you now are endorsing our policy of applying diplomatic pressure and potentially having bilateral discussions with the iranians to end their nuclear program. but just a few years ago you said that's something you'd never do in the same way that you initially opposed a timetable in afghanistan. now you're for it, although it depends. in the same way that you say you would have ended the war in iraq, but recently gave a speech saying that we should have 20,000 more folks in there. the same way that you said it was mission creep to go after gadhafi. when it comes to going after osama bin laden, you said, well, any president would make that call but when you were candidate in 2008, as i was, and i said if i got bin laden in our sights, i would take that shot, you said, we shouldn't move heaven and earth to get one man. and you said we should ask pakistan for permission and if we had asked pakistan for permission, we would not have gotten him and it was moving heaven and earth to get
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Oct 25, 2012
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Oct 25, 2012


to invade neighboring iraq, despite nato membership and an offer of $6 billion. but turkey was torn, as they are on many other issues. are they european or asian? are they secular or islamist? are they democratic or authoritarian? are they urban or rural? here we explore the regional geography of turkey and its largest city. half european, half asian, istanbul is the cultural and commercial heart of turkey. it's a city of great contrasts. the traditional shops in the grand bazaar. and modern, spacious shopping centers with fashionab boutiques. but for thousands of people, marginal street trade is the only source of income. the poorest among them have built shelters at the edge of the city. the wealthy live on the waterfront in stately apartment buildings. many have jobs in the modern offices of turkish and multinational companies. politics, religion, ethnicity, migration, economics: istanbul, with nearly ten million people, is facing multiple challenges. the city's unique location provides the first clue as to why its fate is of so much interest to other parts of the world. istanbul
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Oct 25, 2012


about nickel and diming people that maybe got hurt in iraq defending their country thinking they had a park system that worked for them that was worth fighting for. thank you very much. >> is there any other public comment? deny. >> commissioners if i may speak personally for the public. as a 30 year u.s. navy veteran and actual user of the veteran's administration hospital up there i have no problem with this particular restriction. i am carrying forward. >> thank you. >> thank you deny. >> well, as a vietnam veteran i will entertain a motion. >> moved. >> second. >> all in favor? aye. opposed? hearing none. it is unanimous. >> we are now at public comment and may address the commissioners in the jurisdiction of things that do not appear on the jerndz and didn't make comment on item four. anyone that would like to make general public comment ? >> yes and i would like to have the projector remain on. >> they will put on. >> okay. here we see an article that came out september 12, 2001, and we see there was a low key early warning about air travel. now what's really interest
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Oct 24, 2012
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Oct 24, 2012


avilleiated group had a role. >> al qaeda in iraq. that would be significant. >> not in this attack. >> exactly. >> we know there is a core group of the a dozen of people, the bigger group, between 35 and 40 people. 12 of those had some sort of al qaeda affiliation and a long time we heard they were affiliated with al qaeda in the islamic magnificent rreb. they believe that the attack in yemen was also involved. and one of the targets was the u.s. embassy. >> a large number of the people, forbes fighters who went to iraq to fight and kill americans and iraqis were from libya particularly eastern libya, eastern been gadsy. are those people who just returned home, do we know have they just returned home and are living in libya with the foreign terrorist experience? or did they purposefully come to libya for the attack? >> we don't know, but it's very important, and it kind of fits with what we've heard. that this was a loosely bound group. your cousin may be a member of al qaeda in iraq, for example, and they'll pick up on that. very possible they went home and got together and found

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